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y WEATHER * NORTH CAROLINA Fair to day, tonight and Tuesday.* Slightly warmer today. Cool again tonight. Mild again Tuesday. VOLUME II h " I Hl m §L I 'S4|HF - m Jr : WBg JU ■ W aB *V| JB4' f I hB p sgp n t £ IF «a 1 § - 2 SB.' f ««. k JBHh i -jbßß|||| J|| Hfl J|gg§§g| jHpr H if ill 1* ft K f? I I I I I i iBBi i SUKm p I j MOST BEAUTIFUL OF THE BEAUTIES—Fiftee n beautiful girls competed for the title of “Queen of Cotton" at Dunn’s Town and Country Festival oil Saturday. Miss Reba Hankins, center, was crowned Queen by At iculture Commissioner Stag Ballentine and tying for second place honors were Miss Anne O’Quin.i of Liilington, left, and Miss Evange line Stewart of Coats, right. The queen received a SIOO diadiond ring from Stanley’s Jewelers and a t hree-piece set of luggage from The Jewel Box. (Daily Record Photo by Bill Biggs.) Festival Acclaimad4l%Su£'ess Stevenson To Hold Conferences Today SPRINGFIELD, 111. (IP) Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson planned to meet with farm labor leaders tod&y as his campaign headquarters watched anxiously for a possible repercussion from California to the governor’s stand on tidelanus oil. Stjevenson’s appointment book listed Waller Reuther, ‘president of the CIO United Auto workers, and James <3. Patton, president of the National Farmers Union. The Democratic presidential nom |) inee was already threatened with serious trouble in Texas, with its 24 electoral votes, for his declara tion Saturday against state owner ship of the oil-bearing submerged coastal lands. Despite the breach between Harnett Negro Held * On Slaying Charge Charles Ferguson, 42-year-old Angler Negro, is being held in the Harnett County jail awaiting action by the grand jury at the September term of Superior Court in the slaying of Norman Gainey, 30, also of Angier. A jury impaneled by Harnett jr Coroner Grover C. Henderson order ed Ferguson hsld at an inquest con ducted early Sunday morning. According to the evidence, Fer guson shot Gainey to death about McMillen Resigns Position At WCKB Jim McMillen, popular Dunn civic leader, has re signed his position as news director of Radio Statioh W CKB to devote his full time to his rapidly-growing and expanding M. and J. Service Company here. Mr. McMillen had been connected with WCKB for about a year and his program was regarded by many as the outstanding feature of the station. V. GREAT LOSS TO STATION His resignation can* as a great TELEPHONES: 3117 • 3118 - 3119 Stevenson and Gov. Allan Shievers of Texas, Democratic leaders in other Southern states generally fol lowed a hand-off, or wait-and-see policy. OTHER STATES INVOLVED The tidelands issue is also of great importance to California, which was in the Democratic col lumn in the 1948 presidential elec tion. The Texas uproar developed after (Continued on Page 8) midnight during a row at Fergu son’s home, in which he operates a piccolo establishment. FIGHT REPORTED Ferguson told authorities and members of the coroner’s jury that Gainey and his wife were at the Ferguson home fighting and that he ordered the couple away. He said he several times warned them to leave. When they refused, he said, he took a .22 pistol and fired three (Continued, oh page seven) loss to the station, but Mr. Mc- Miilen pointed out that his newly organized company has expanded so rapidly that Jt now requires most of his time. ' M. and J. is an unusual business firm that renders any and every sort of legitimate service to its clients. For a nominal sum, citi zens can get any service from baby-sitting to * secretarial shop ping and mailbag service. Offices of M. and J. are located on file fourth floor of the First Citizens Bank Building. Mr. McMillan, to active in »ev (ConUnued On rage Two) (Eke B aihj Jitmrfr Repeated rains through out’ the day cut down the size of the crowd Saturday but failed to dampen the en thusiaAn, spirit or gaity of Dunn’s annual Town and Country Festival. Several thousand people witnes sed the opening parade Saturday morning held just before the rains started—and then took part in the varied other activities of the day— which included everything from husband-calling and hog calling contests to a mammoth fish fry, beauty pageant and dance. ’ Everybody, including Chamber of Commerce President Clarence Mc- Lamb, other city and chamber of ficials, Co-Chairmen A1 Wullen waber and Gene Smith, and all the visitors, acclaimed the day’s events a big success. BALLENTINE LAUDS AFFAIR L. Y. Ballentine of Raleigh, State Commissioner of Agriculture, was high in his praises of the day de signed to pay tribute to the far mers and congratulated the town for staging such an event. In the afternoon, Commissioner Ballentine crowned Miss Reba Hankins of Fayetteville as Dunn’s “Queen of Cotton.” Miss Hawkins won the royal title in competition with 14 other lovely little ladies. Taking second places as Maids of Cotton were: Miss Anne O’Quinn of Liilington and Miss Evangeline Stewart of Coats. The judges were: Mrs. Bess Ball entine and Fay Reaves of Raleigh, 'Continued On Page two. Roy Rogers' Daughter Dies HOLLYWOOD (IP) Robin Elizabeth Rogers, youngest daugh ter of cowboy film star Roy Rog ers and his co-star and WUe, Dale Evans, died last night, two days before her second birthday. The child became ill with mnmps last week and suffered complications that caused her death, a spokesman for the movie star said. ’MARKETS* EGGS AND POULTRY RALEIGH Os) Central North Carolina live poultry: Fryers and broilers steady, supplies short to ad equate; heavy hens firm, supplies short. Prices at farm up to 10 a. m. Fryers or broilers 2(4-3 pounds 31; heavy hens 21-22, mostly 22. Eggs, steady, supplies short, de mand good. Prices paid producers and handlers FOB local grading stations: A large 61. A.bSMtum S 3, DUNN, N. fc., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 25, 1952 ike Tells Legion America Now In Greatest Peril In History Weather Bureau Fears Storm j Kav Hit Coast j MIAMI (IP) The Miami Weaker Bureau dispatched a Navy hur ricane hunter plane from Puerto Rico today to investigate a squally weather front in the Atlantic that may develop into the season’s fjrst big blow. / The “easterly wave” is located about 500 miles east-northeast/ of | Puerto Rico. Chief storm forecast | er Grady Norton of Miami said winds are up to 35 miles her hour I and squalls are pounding a wide area of the Atlantic. “It’s one of those things we watch closely,” Norton said. “It shows some signs of slight inten sification. It has potentialities of becoming the season’s first hurri cane.” The Navy plane was expected over , the area about 4 pm. EST and ’ will make the first on-the-scene report, Norton said an Air Force plane at Puerto Rico is alerted to fly out tomorrow morning if the Navy’s report justifies it. Bryan Named County Chairman J' Shepard Bryan of Dunn has been appointed chairman for Har nett county of the John Motley Morehead Foundation program for awarding scholarships to the Uni igfcry schools. 'Mr. Bryan was presented his com mission at a recent meeting of the county chairmen in Chapel Hill. Morehead scholarships hereto fore have been available only to graduate students. The undergraduate scholarships will be valued at $1,250 a year for one year, but will be subject to renewal. These will be available I iCnntlnnH on P*V* Twoi Linder Is Elected As Member Os AIA NEW YORK—Harold E. Linden of 107 Pinecrest Drive, Fayetteville certified public accountanjt. has been elected a member of the American Institute of Accountants, national professional society of CPA’s with headquarters in New York. . Linder is a partner in the firm of Thurman C. Ennis and Company, CPA’s of Dunn and Fayetteville, N. C. An alumnus of New Jersey Teach ers College and New York Univer sity, Linder is a member of the North Carolina Association of Cer tified Public Accountants. BULLETINS CHICAGO UP) The Chicago Tribune said today that it had received many telephone and telegraph mes sages during the week-end commenting on the suggest ion of Col. Robert R. McCormick, its editor and publisher, that the time had come for the organization of another political party, “the American party.” TRAPANI, Sicily UP) Speedy launches and fishing craft from this West Sicilian port rescued 50 persons today from a British airliner which ditched off the coast, but three persons were kiUed and four others are missing. The four-engine Hermes, with $1 passengers and six crew members was forced to ditch in the sea off Trapani Continued On Pane two Harnett Students To Get Diplomas Among the 30 summer school students who will receive diplomas from Campbell College on Wed nesday are 3 from Harnett County. 9 more students from the county also took advantage of the accel erated program offered by the col lege, but will not complete their work toward graduation until a later session. The three Harnett graduates are Carol Broadwell, Martin Davis Byrd, and William Robert Prof fitt. CAMPBELL FAMILY Tfiii Brondweil, daughter of Mrs. >' -M ’ hKAQ 'Vgf w :d. HHI ■SySK wUP JtV m II■I ■ ■ I COMMISSIONER BALLENTINE HERE L. Y. (Stag) Ballentine of Varina, State Commissioner of Agriculture, was the honored guest at Dunn’s first annual Town and Country Festival here Sat urday. The State official is pictured here with Earl McD. Westbrook, right, chairman of the program committee, and County Agent C. R. Ammons, lef (Daily Record Photo by Louis Dearborn). x* r. . .f: Kiln Tobacco Market Sets Average Os $51.17 Today The quality of the leal was better but the volume was off drastically on the Dunn Tobacco Market this morn ing. Today’s sales, although small, produced the highest average this season. This morning, the market sold 67,424 pounds for $34,490.72, an average of $51.17. • Os this . total, Buck Currln’s New Big-4 Warehouse sold 33,670 pounds for $16,820.72, an average of $49.99. Dick Owen’s Fanners’ Ware house sold a total of 33,754 pounds ‘ for $17,670, an average of $52.34. : | First sale Tuesday will be at I Owen’s- Farmers Warehouse and ; ‘Continued On Page Twoi Waylon R. Broadwell and the late Mr. Broadwell of Angler, at tended Angler High School last year, where she was a cheer lea der. She receives her high school diploma from Campbell. Both her j father and her older sister also! attended Campbell College.. Davie Byrd, son of Rev. and Mrs. M. L. Byrd Route 1, Erwin, is re ceiving his college sophomore dip loma. He plans * to enter the Air Bttl Proffitt, son of Mr. and Mrs. G_s. Proffitt of Lillington, plans to (CaMtaaed aa Paga Sevan) Farouk Had Plenty Os Women , Liquor CAIRO, Egypt (U*) The public got an intimate glimpse of ex- King Farouk’s private life today as newspapers printed photographs taken from a vast pornographic collection in three of his palaces. The Army threw open the doors of the Abdin and Bubbeh palaces in Cairo and Montazah palace in Alexandria to local newspapermen yesterday. The reporters emerged with pic Date For Election Sought By Unions Leadets of the CIO in West Durham plants of Erwin Mills agreed today that a joint committee meeting with the AFL group would probably be held tomorrow to set the date for a representation election. John Byrd, local CIO leader, in a statement released to the Durham newspaper last night said, “that a meeting of CIO workers was held Saturday night at E. K. Powe school.” He said, “that 40 people present agreed to the joint committee meet ing to arrange for the election. People on both sides want to get the election over,” he said. “As for myself I’ve been ready for them at any time. Final arrangements for the meeting will be held some time today, he said and the meet ing will be held on neutral ground.” In a telefiram to Mr. Byrd this morning, UTW-AFL representatives immediately accepted the proposal for a meeting. Edgar Maynard) Business Agent for Local 257, UTW ; AFL, representing the West Dur ham plants said, “We of PTW AFL are prepared to meet.” ' j Mr. Maynard’s telegram said “Re -1 garding article in Durham Morning Herald Monday August 25th for proposed meeting with yourself and TWUA-CIO for purpose of setting date for consent election at Erwin Mills we of UTW-AFL Local 257 are prepared to meet provided at this meeting you have an official ' of TWUA with Rieve’s authoriza tion to consent to an election . . . PIVE CENTS PER COPY tures of sexy statues and paintings. In the former monarch’s bedroom newsmen found many colored and black-and-white sexy photographs and a list containing addresses of i 56 women. j GIFTS FOR THE GIRLS I Farouk’s office contained a sup i board stacked with bronze and l marble statues of nudes in sex pos j es. In his bedroom cabinet were i Continued Op Six) Await your early reply setting time and place for meeting.” REPEATED CHALLENGES UTW-AFL groups in each unit of the Erwin Mills had repeatedly challenged TWUA-CIO to consent Continued On Page two) Pick Accused 0f I Deceiving Senate m WASHINGTON (IP) Senate investigators said todrinfli Lt. Gen Lewis A. Pick, chief of army engineers tried to 1 ceive them about a multi-billion dollar U. S. air basewjfHH] struction “fiasco” in French Morocco. §j The Senate Preparedness sub committee, headed by Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson D-Tex. demanded that Army Secretary Frank O. Pace Jr. take “appropriate action” a gainst the three-star general and determine whether “disciplinary action” is warranted against any of the military officers involved in the North African air base can-., struction program. 1 The Record Gets Results NO. 185 General Hits Corruption In Government NEW YORK tip. Dwight D. Eisenhower said today the United States is ir its great est peril in history because Soviet Russia is “insatiable in its lust for conquest.” The Republican presidential nom inee. in an address prepared for delivery before the 34th annual American Legion convention, said' “the fire of hope that flamed high in American hearts” at the end ; of World War II has disappeared j “under the monstrous advance of Communist tyranny.” I , ■ I “This tyranny is primitive in its brutalism,” Eisenhower said. “It is insatiable in its lust for con quest. It is committed to and revolution and war until the continents are its slave camps and all humankind are its chattel.” The GOP nominee said America ihust be militarily and productively strong, must cooperate more closely with other nations of the free world, and must serve notice on the Kremlin that it does not recognize “the slightest perman ence in Russia’s position in Eastern Europe and Asia.” WITH COLD FINALITY “ We must tell the Soviets with cold finality that never shall we rest content until the tidal wave of mud of aggressive communism has receded within its own borders,” Eisenhower said. g the man who led Allied forces to ' victory in Wfestem Europe in 1949 • arrived here to start 60 dan of hard campaigning before election 5 day Nov. 4. His sijeech before his fellow Legionnaires was billed as “non political,” but as he himself said his every word is studied these day for “political implications.” HITS CORRUPTION \ While the speech was devoted mainly to the scathing verbal at- j tack on the Soviet Union, the GOP nominee also took occasion to stats his views on “assassins of char- 1 acter and promoters .of witch 1 hunts.” corruption in government, r, equality of treatment for all, and the need for social and economic M 1 “First, let us never tolerate In | i any area of our community life J those criminal malefactors who by a stealth or bv subversion or by m treasonous betrayal attempt to % I weaken and destroy the American. M constitutional system, i “But, at the same time, let US M forever hew sharply to the funda- Jjg mental American principle that 4 (Continued On Page Six) 'M Graham To Open 1 Kashmir Titles -i| , GENEVA, Switzerland « Jj United Nations mediator 9*. J Frank CchaVi of Norths Carons,'rd open*-- here today in *- < j vear-old fight between kIW Md •jl Pakistan over the KadßoK.^7^^^j tor hopes to bring about aa agwa- .1 ment on the number a t troaps the two countries can keep ah eaoh J] e side of a cease-fire Una. *1 If agreement on thg Iwpa ant ' j be reached it is hopfe) the two j countries may be peroaodjd f withdraw their troops and , otf % j plebiscite to determine whfch j t I country is Kashmir area Pick, who bossed comtrtt£|t(S| I Ledo Road across
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